Eric, I hate to see good cropland turned into a place to grow decorations. At a thousand trees per acre, 30 million trees is a LOT of arable land. It takes 1.2 acres of land to feed a person in the US now, so 25000 people's worth of cropland just to grow decorations...

And a tree farm is in no way a forest, so I can't count it as such.

But it creates jobs, adds a billion and change in product to the economy, thins the forest here and there, and makes people happy, so...

Recycle the tree. I spent years trying and failing to get the local water district guy to let me use christmas trees to make fish structure in the city water supply lake back in CA. Oh well.